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Vendor software and documentation
Raised as a usability problem by 17 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2012–2025), in 17 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Vendor software and documentation, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 17 complaints
- Firmware setup offers no way to enroll new keys, and enrollment fails with a cryptic error2025-07-23
- Full-page modal can't be dismissed; site turns gray and blocks clicking after loading2024-05-08
- Inconsistent custom filter syntax and poor docs waste hours figuring out queries2023-12-25
- Documentation website is impossible to find useful information on2023-08-09
- Has to watch 10+ minutes of screencasts to understand what a product does2022-12-15
- Janky IDEs and learning different port masks per microcontroller, some configurations never worked2022-04-12
- Having to re-enter details and interact with each vendor's poor checkout UX2021-05-30
- Answers to how-to questions are only slow silent screen recordings, not readable instructions2021-05-03
- Vendor MIBs bundle conflicting duplicate dependencies, so trap translation behaves unpredictably2021-05-02
- Products are hard to secure; documented paths are insecure and firewall rules lack direction and roles2021-01-13
- Shallow keyword-driven vendor pages force users to search other sites for real answers2020-12-14
- Adding each logic element takes repeated mouse clicks and scrolling through lists2020-12-08
- Forced signups, excess data collection, and postage costs revealed too late2019-11-13
- Driver updates force restarts and trigger Windows Update, costing a long wait before gaming2016-10-11
- Vendor IDE install and toolchain are buggy, cluttered and mismatched, forcing manual rework2016-10-06
- Vendor instructions are convoluted and messy to work through2013-12-05
- Vendor-customized Android skins have terrible, inconsistent user interfaces2012-07-14